Oracle has laid off around 21,000 employees over the past year, amounting to an almost 13 percent decline in its global workforce, with the company admitting that the adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) has played a factor.
“As of May 31, 2026, we employed approximately 141,000 full-time employees, of which approximately 49,000 were employed in the U.S., and approximately 92,000 were employed internationally,” Oracle said in a June 22 filing made with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
The total job count is roughly 21,000 lower than the 162,000 workers the company employed as of May 31, 2025.
During this period, the U.S. employee count declined by approximately 9,000 while the international count fell by 12,000….